ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,237, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to PANASONIC AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Radar apparatus" was invented by Kenta Iwasa (Tokyo) and Hidekuni Yomo (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide an improved radar apparatus capable of expanding the aperture length per antenna element and the aperture length of the virtual reception array antenna. One of a transmission array antenna and a reception array antenna includes a first antenna element group having m-pieces of antenna elements arranged at a first interval Dt along a first axis direction (m is an integer of 1 or larger), and the other one of the t...